April 2006 - Wine-Devel - list.winehq.org

Re: [WINED3D 1/3] Share get_register_code()
by H. Verbeet April 28, 2006

April 28, 2006

On 28/04/06, Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2(a)cornell.edu> wrote: > Move Roderick's new function for obtaining the register code into > wined3d_private.h, Personally, I would prefer to not move code into headers.

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First Wine-Aware malware?
by Stefan Dösinger April 28, 2006

April 28, 2006

Hi, I just tried to run some "Malware Checker" just for fun in Wine, just out of interest how many infected files it will find on a fresh .wine setup. Bad security habbit, I know :-| . This app was the "ErrorSafe Scanner" from http://de.errorsafe.com/pages/scanner_de/index.php?aid=fastint_at_de_lng_ed… Don't blame me for system breakage if you go there ;-) Well, I ran it in a fresh .wine with my unpriviledged testing user(forgot to remove the Z:\ drive :-( ) . It started without showing anything, and created some autostart registry entries. As it couldn't be killed with Strg+C, I looked at the processes with ps to kill it. Well, I found a lot of "ErrorSafeScannerInstall_de.exe -nag", but also this: 8835 pts/2 S+ 0:00 sh -c ping -w 1 instlog.errorsafe.com >/dev/null 2>/dev/null 8836 pts/2 S+ 0:00 ping -w 1 instlog.errorsafe.com Well, it also showed a few wininet fixmes: fixme:wininet:InternetCheckConnectionW Is there something in Wine which executes the Unix shell to run ping, redirecting all output to /dev/null ? Or did this malware know about Wine and Linux, and started the native apps, with the redirection? Well, I will now do a complete security check on my whole Linux box :-( (That's bad security too, I know, I should flatten the whole system) BTW, that malware is described here: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/errorsafe.html. This page seems to descibe an older version, as the registry entries were different. Stefan

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SoC idea: connet to clamav
by Marcus Meissner April 28, 2006

April 28, 2006

Hi, Another idea for Summer of Code that strikes me as useful and doable: - Virus Scanner Support WINE is currently one of the ways a UNIX user runs code downloaded from the network. This code is also known to be more often viral infected, might contain worms, or spyware. There exists an OpenSource virus scan engine called ClamAV which could be hooked into WINE, for instance via CreateProcess() or LoadLibrary() or other places. [There is however a small license problem. Clamav is GPLed, while WINE is LPGL.] Ciao, Marcus

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Re: Fixing cross-compilation 2/2
by Mike McCormack April 28, 2006

April 28, 2006

Paul Millar wrote: > +# Variable dependency based on whether user has run configure with --with-wine-tools option > +TOOLS := $(if @WITH_WINE_TOOLS@,,tools) I think Alexandre considers := and $(if ...) to be non-portable. Mike

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SoC project suggestions
by Mike McCormack April 28, 2006

April 28, 2006

Here's some suggestions for SoC projects: * Complete the Wine Web browser (aka. Internet Explorer) frame (menu/toolbar/status bar) in shdocvw. We currently have code to render HTML, thanks to Jacek's Mozilla work, and a frame with no controls. * Full URLMoniker implementation. The main goal would be to get native IE working with builtin urlmon.dll. (Jacek's suggestion) * Implement transacted mode for OLE32 Storage (STGM_TRANSACTED). Mike

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Tahoma font
by Louis. Lenders April 28, 2006

April 28, 2006

Hi, next week i have quite some (travel)time i have to kill, so i thought maybe i could use the time to add tahoma font to wine (needed for Steam). I played around a bit with fontforge and a basically i think i get how to create fonts, and add them to wine. However, i'm not sure what the legal way is to do this; if i import the windows Tahoma.TTF into fontforge it seems the .sfd is already generated but i guess it's not legal to add that to wine. Anyone could help me with a quick (and clear) HOWTO ? ___________________________________________________________ > > Switch an email account to Yahoo! Mail, you could > win FIFA World Cup tickets. http://uk.mail.yahoo.com > ___________________________________________________________ NEW Yahoo! Cars - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/

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SambaXP update, part 2
by Kai Blin April 27, 2006

April 27, 2006

Hi folks, now that SambaXP is officialy over, the samba team a couple of other people have retreated to a smaller room to discuss other things. Steve French had a talk about using CIFS on linux as a replacement to NFS which seems to be pretty cool. A couple of other talks were given, too, but if you're really interested, have a look at the schedule[1]. What was more interesting was that after the talks there was a panel discussion where the samba team expressed interest in continuing cooperation with Wine as discussed on last year's wineconf. Steve asked how exactly we wanted the named pipes exposed and if we could write up some testcases for that stuff. I think if anybody is interested in working on that is to email Steve directly. I got some more work on GENSEC done, but in order to really link this together, some more work is needed. I still have things blowing up on me when trying to use it for client-side sspi. Well, that's it for today, Kai [1] http://www.sambaxp.org/index.php?id=25 -- Kai Blin, (blin at gmx dot net) The star of riches is shining upon you.

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A bit more on edit control margins
by Duane Clark April 27, 2006

April 27, 2006

I went ahead and took a bunch more measurements of font margins in the edit control. These are all taken on real Win2k using traces added to the conformance test test_margins_font_change, and cross compiled with MinGW. So here they are for posterity. The results are rather confusing to me. But there seems to be a general trend. If MinA < MinC, then the trend seems to be something close to: left = (- MinA - MinC) / 2 right = (- MinA - MinC) / 2 if MinA >= MinC left = (- MinA) / 2 right = (- MinC) / 2 edit.c:807:Font:Verdana height=6 ave width=3 max width=7 edit.c:818:ABC MinA=-1, minC=-3 edit.c:825:Margins left=0, right=1 edit.c:807:Font:Verdana height=8 ave width=3 max width=9 edit.c:818:ABC MinA=-1, minC=-4 edit.c:825:Margins left=0, right=2 edit.c:807:Font:Verdana height=12 ave width=5 max width=13 edit.c:818:ABC MinA=-1, minC=-5 edit.c:825:Margins left=0, right=3 edit.c:807:Font:Verdana height=16 ave width=7 max width=19 edit.c:818:ABC MinA=-1, minC=-7 edit.c:825:Margins left=1, right=4 edit.c:807:Font:Verdana height=20 ave width=9 max width=25 edit.c:818:ABC MinA=-2, minC=-9 edit.c:825:Margins left=1, right=5 edit.c:807:Font:Verdana height=22 ave width=9 max width=27 edit.c:818:ABC MinA=-2, minC=-9 edit.c:825:Margins left=1, right=5 edit.c:809:Font:Verdana height=23 ave width=10 max width=28 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=-1, minC=-10 edit.c:832:Margins left=1, right=6 edit.c:807:Font:Verdana height=26 ave width=11 max width=33 edit.c:818:ABC MinA=-1, minC=-12 edit.c:825:Margins left=1, right=7 edit.c:807:Font:Verdana height=29 ave width=12 max width=36 edit.c:818:ABC MinA=-1, minC=-13 edit.c:825:Margins left=1, right=7 edit.c:811:Font:Verdana height=23 ave width=11 max width=29 edit.c:813:Italic=0 Cmded Weight=600 TM Weight=700 edit.c:815:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:828:ABC MinA=-1, minC=-11 edit.c:835:Margins left=1, right=6 edit.c:811:Font:Verdana height=23 ave width=11 max width=34 edit.c:813:Italic=0 Cmded Weight=700 TM Weight=700 edit.c:815:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:828:ABC MinA=-1, minC=-11 edit.c:835:Margins left=1, right=6 edit.c:807:Font:Arial height=12 ave width=4 max width=24 edit.c:818:ABC MinA=-4, minC=-2 edit.c:825:Margins left=2, right=2 edit.c:807:Font:Arial height=16 ave width=6 max width=35 edit.c:818:ABC MinA=-7, minC=-2 edit.c:825:Margins left=3, right=3 edit.c:807:Font:Arial height=19 ave width=8 max width=45 edit.c:818:ABC MinA=-7, minC=-3 edit.c:825:Margins left=4, right=4 edit.c:809:Font:Arial height=24 ave width=9 max width=56 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=-10, minC=-2 edit.c:832:Margins left=6, right=5 edit.c:811:Font:Arial height=24 ave width=10 max width=53 edit.c:813:Italic=0 Cmded Weight=700 TM Weight=700 edit.c:815:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:828:ABC MinA=-9, minC=-2 edit.c:835:Margins left=6, right=5 edit.c:807:Font:Bookman Old Style height=16 ave width=6 max width=18 edit.c:818:ABC MinA=-1, minC=-2 edit.c:825:Margins left=2, right=2 edit.c:809:Font:Bookman Old Style height=24 ave width=10 max width=32 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=-2, minC=-2 edit.c:832:Margins left=4, right=4 edit.c:807:Font:Century Gothic height=24 ave width=10 max width=28 edit.c:818:ABC MinA=-2, minC=-2 edit.c:825:Margins left=4, right=4 edit.c:807:Font:Courier New height=24 ave width=13 max width=15 edit.c:818:ABC MinA=0, minC=-1 edit.c:825:Margins left=0, right=0 edit.c:809:Font:Garamond height=24 ave width=8 max width=26 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=14 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=-2, minC=-2 edit.c:832:Margins left=3, right=3 edit.c:809:Font:Lucida Sans Unicode height=23 ave width=10 max width=40 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=16 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=-12, minC=-2 edit.c:832:Margins left=6, right=6 edit.c:809:Font:Marlett height=24 ave width=23 max width=24 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=24 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=0, minC=0 edit.c:832:Margins left=0, right=0 edit.c:809:Font:Math1 Bold height=24 ave width=10 max width=34 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=-2, minC=-10 edit.c:832:Margins left=2, right=6 edit.c:809:Font:Mathematica1 height=23 ave width=11 max width=35 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=17 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=-2, minC=-11 edit.c:832:Margins left=3, right=6 edit.c:809:Font:Mathematica7 height=24 ave width=12 max width=24 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=18 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=-1, minC=-1 edit.c:832:Margins left=0, right=1 edit.c:809:Font:Microsoft Sans Serif height=24 ave width=8 max width=34 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=14 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=-1, minC=-2 edit.c:832:Margins left=0, right=0 edit.c:809:Font:MT Extra height=24 ave width=15 max width=24 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=19 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=0, minC=-1 edit.c:832:Margins left=0, right=0 edit.c:809:Font:MT Symbol height=24 ave width=9 max width=23 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=19 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=-3, minC=-4 edit.c:832:Margins left=3, right=4 edit.c:809:Font:Palatino Linotype height=24 ave width=8 max width=29 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=13 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=-3, minC=-3 edit.c:832:Margins left=3, right=3 edit.c:809:Font:Symbol height=24 ave width=12 max width=22 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=14 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=-2, minC=-10 edit.c:832:Margins left=3, right=6 edit.c:811:Font:Tahoma height=24 ave width=9 max width=39 edit.c:813:Italic=0 Cmded Weight=400 TM Weight=400 edit.c:815:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:828:ABC MinA=-9, minC=-2 edit.c:835:Margins left=5, right=5 edit.c:811:Font:Tahoma height=24 ave width=9 max width=39 edit.c:813:Italic=0 Cmded Weight=500 TM Weight=400 edit.c:815:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:828:ABC MinA=-9, minC=-2 edit.c:835:Margins left=5, right=5 edit.c:811:Font:Tahoma height=24 ave width=10 max width=40 edit.c:813:Italic=0 Cmded Weight=600 TM Weight=700 edit.c:815:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:828:ABC MinA=-9, minC=-2 edit.c:835:Margins left=6, right=6 edit.c:811:Font:Tahoma height=24 ave width=10 max width=46 edit.c:813:Italic=0 Cmded Weight=700 TM Weight=700 edit.c:815:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:828:ABC MinA=-11, minC=-2 edit.c:835:Margins left=0, right=0 edit.c:811:Font:Tahoma height=24 ave width=10 max width=46 edit.c:813:Italic=0 Cmded Weight=800 TM Weight=700 edit.c:815:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:828:ABC MinA=-11, minC=-2 edit.c:835:Margins left=0, right=0 edit.c:811:Font:Tahoma height=24 ave width=9 max width=39 edit.c:813:Italic=255 Cmded Weight=400 TM Weight=400 edit.c:815:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:828:ABC MinA=-9, minC=-8 edit.c:835:Margins left=5, right=5 edit.c:811:Font:Tahoma height=24 ave width=11 max width=47 edit.c:813:Italic=255 Cmded Weight=800 TM Weight=700 edit.c:815:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:828:ABC MinA=-10, minC=-8 edit.c:835:Margins left=1, right=6 edit.c:811:Font:Tahoma Bold height=24 ave width=10 max width=46 edit.c:813:I=0 U=0 W=700 edit.c:815:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:828:ABC MinA=-11, minC=-2 edit.c:835:Margins left=0, right=0 edit.c:809:Font:Times New Roman height=23 ave width=8 max width=54 edit.c:811:I=0 U=0 W=400 edit.c:813:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:826:ABC MinA=-10, minC=-3 edit.c:833:Margins left=6, right=5 edit.c:810:Font:Times New Roman height=23 ave width=8 max width=34 edit.c:812:I=255 U=0 W=400 edit.c:814:otmEMSquare=15 edit.c:827:ABC MinA=-10, minC=-5 edit.c:834:Margins left=5, right=5 edit.c:811:Font:Times New Roman height=24 ave width=9 max width=37 edit.c:813:I=255 U=0 W=700 edit.c:815:otmEMSquare=14 edit.c:828:ABC MinA=-11, minC=-6 edit.c:835:Margins left=6, right=6 edit.c:809:Font:Trebuchet MS height=24 ave width=9 max width=20 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=14 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=-2, minC=-2 edit.c:832:Margins left=2, right=1 edit.c:809:Font:Wingdings height=23 ave width=19 max width=29 edit.c:812:otmEMSquare=16 edit.c:825:ABC MinA=0, minC=-1 edit.c:832:Margins left=0, right=1

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Re: First patch: Regedit Multi-String Value
by Juan Lang April 27, 2006

April 27, 2006

Hi Philippe, a couple more thoughts: +TCHAR* convert_multistringvalue( BOOL toRegistryFormat, TCHAR* value, LONG *len ) This function shares very little code between the toRegistryFormat == FALSE and toRegistryFormat == TRUE versions. I think this would be cleaner as two separate functions. + /* We found out the amount of strings in the list. Allocate enough memory for the + new list of strings separated by new lines. */ This comment's a bit verbose, I think it's clear enough what the function is doing without it. + /* A REG_MULTI_SZ entry is basically a list of NULL terminated strings */ + /* Each string represents a single line. The list is terminated by another NULL characters */ + /* Here we convert all the new line charaters to NULL characters */ + /* Also we make sure to terminate with two NULL characters */ This comment is redundant with the comments for the function. Like Mike M's comments, mine are mostly cosmetic, which is a good sign. Once you feel the patch is ready, please send to wine-patches. Welcome to wine hacking! --Juan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[SOC] ASIO
by Christian Gmeiner April 27, 2006

April 27, 2006

What is ASIO? ASIO is a driver interface for pro-audio apps developed by Steinberg. It's somewhat similar to our beloved Jack sound server, but not as advanced. I thought about implementing ASIO for wine so we are one step neaer to a running Cubase. I have also some advanced audio hardware - hercules 16/12 fw (need to check if there are some dirvers). At the moment I am a student of Computer Sciences in the 4 term and have done programming with c, c++ and java. Bugs, which get fixed: http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2161 What do you think about this idea? Thanks, Christian

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Announcing Wineconf 2006, urgent need for head count
by Jeremy White April 27, 2006

April 27, 2006

Hi folks, I am pleased to announce that Rob Shearman has arranged for us to have Wineconf in his home town, Reading, in the UK. It will be held at the University of Reading: http://www.fmd.rdg.ac.uk/res/CommercialAccommodation.asp It will be on the weekend of September 16 and 17. We have a wrinkle we need your help on. That is, as we make our deposit (which we need to do quickly), we have to tell them how many rooms we want to reserve. The have a good deal on rooms (40 pounds/night, which is quite good, afaict). The trick is that we have to pay for all the rooms we reserve ahead of time; we can't ask for 50 rooms and then only use 43. We have to pay for all 50. We may be able to ask for 50 rooms, and then get another 3 or 4, although that's not guaranteed. So, *if you want a room at Wineconf*, please fill in this form ASAP: http://www.winehq.org/site/wineconf/survey06 If you're not sure you'll make it, but think you might, we have a choice for that too <grin>. Act now or you'll be sleeping in Swindon... Cheers, Jeremy

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Questions about Wine
by ethereal＠centrum.cz April 27, 2006

April 27, 2006

Hi! I have a question and some reminds about Wine. 1.) When it will be all applications and games supported on 100% ? 2.) Why wine doesn't accept my own config at all? 3.) Add more options to Winecfg. It will be fine and welcomed. 4.) I have small fonts in some apps (size about 4 and it has curious look) 5.) Wine doesn't link new installed apps to my desktop and "start menu" My system is Fedora Core 5 and KDE as window manager

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Just want to make a comment about the current status of the project
by Philip V. Neves April 27, 2006

April 27, 2006

I've been really looking at wine for the last couple of months or so. Last little bit I've been helping by doing some testing and filing bug reports. I must say the developers of this project have done an amazing job. Its increadible how close you all are. If you can at least get code associated with making install shield based installers and other installers work flawlessly in the next little while this project will set the being a major thorn in Microsofts side when they bring out Vista. This project has the potential to really deflate them. If anything could be a major encouragement to you this no doubt should be. Thanx guys.

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Temporary wine.git tree
by Mike McCormack April 27, 2006

April 27, 2006

Hi, Since Alexandre is lying on the beach in Greece and there'll be a gap between commits, I've made my Wine tree available and will be committing patches from wine-patches to it. You can pull (merge) these changes into your current Wine GIT tree it as follows: git fetch http://mandoo.dyndns.org/wine.git master:mmbranch git pull . mmbranch I'll send Alexandre a all the patches in the tree when he returns, but his tastes may differ to mine... :) Hopefully this will help prevent development from dropping to a snail's pace for two weeks. Mike

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First patch: Regedit Multi-String Value
by Hedos April 26, 2006

April 26, 2006

Hello folks! I'm new to Wine development, and I've just completed my first patch. I hope I could get some advices to make sure I'm heading in the right direction. Just a bit myself now to clear up a few things: I'm a first year college student who realized this week-end the Google Summer of Code was back again. So, I thought I should definitly give it a try. I started to look around to eventually stumble on the Wine page, which immediatly kept my attention as the type of programming it requires interested me the most. So, I already had experience using Wine, but none regarding Wine development. I downloaded the source and started exploring it since then. There seems to be a lot of exciting projects one could work on for Wine, I might send an application for a project, but so far, I only want to keep exploring before preparing anything else. I tried to code something to get used to the project organization, so I started with something really simple, which is the patch I am proposing here. It allows Multi-String Value edits in Wine's regedit! It is quite simple and definitly not concerning Wine's core code, but I thought it'd be a good start. If anybody wants to try it and comment, I'd be really glad to hear from you! I'll keep you updated as I adventure deeper in my Wine exploration! Thanks a lot, Philippe Paradis

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Open Invention Network
by Michael Jung April 26, 2006

April 26, 2006

Hello, I've just read an article on Linux Weekly News, which I guess might be interesting for Wine: http://lwn.net/Articles/178673/ (How Mono got into Fedora) I'll try to summarize: Basically, Novell bought Commerce One when they went bancrupt. Commerce One had some important patents related to XML webservices. Novell donated those to a newly formed organization called "Open Invention Network". OIN gives royalty free licences to companys and individuals who agree not to sue certain open source projects for violating their patents in turn. (http://openinventionnetwork.com/pat_linuxdefpop.html - Wine is currently not on the list). The interesting thing is the following. If a project, which is on this list, is sued for patent infringment, then it is allowed to use the OIN patents in a countersuit. I hope this isn't old news. Perhaps Wine should apply to get on OIN's "Linux definition" list? Bye, -- Michael Jung mjung(a)iss.tu-darmstadt.de

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Re: riched20: Implement EM_SETUNDOLIMIT and its conformance tests, take 2
by Dimi Paun April 26, 2006

April 26, 2006

On Wed, April 26, 2006 1:30 pm, Matt Finnicum said: > I welcome your comments on the patch. Minor nits: -- how about 2 constants for the values 100, 1000 #define STACK_SIZE_DEFAULT 100 #define STACK_SIZE_MAX 1000 -- maybe use min(wParam, STACK_SIZE_MAX) when setting it -- Dimi Paun <dimi(a)lattica.com> Lattica, Inc.

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Re: setupapi: Fix parsing of UCS-16 files
by Detlef Riekenberg April 26, 2006

April 26, 2006

Am Mittwoch, den 26.04.2006, 15:42 +0100 schrieb Robert Shearman: > + if (*new_buff == 0xfeff) > + new_buff++; > .. new_buff, (WCHAR *)((char*)new_buff +size), error_line ); This points behind the End of the File-Mapping, when you skip the BOM. The Pointer to the End of the Data is still: (WCHAR *)((char*)buffer+size -- By By ... ... Detlef

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Re: LOSTWAGES PATCH: SUSE Download
by Segin April 26, 2006

April 26, 2006

Marcus Meissner wrote: >Hi, > >Adjust SUSE download entry to match what RPMs there are now. > >Ciao, Marcus > >Index: download.template >=================================================================== >RCS file: /home/wine/lostwages/templates/en/download.template,v >retrieving revision 1.77 >diff -u -r1.77 download.template >--- download.template 4 Apr 2006 21:56:03 -0000 1.77 >+++ download.template 25 Apr 2006 21:25:27 -0000 >@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ > <img src="{$root}/images/distro/suse.png" width="50" height="50" alt="SUSE Linux" border="0"></a> > </td> > <td> <b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241&package_id=7…">SUSE</a></b> >- binary and source .rpms for SUSE 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, and 10.0</td> >+ binary and source .rpms for SUSE 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.0, and 10.1</td> > <td><a href="mailto:meissner(a)suse.de">Marcus Meissner</a></td> > </tr> > > > > > > Let me hack at that patch a bit... Index: download.template =================================================================== RCS file: /home/wine/lostwages/templates/en/download.template,v retrieving revision 1.77 diff -u -r1.77 download.template --- download.template 4 Apr 2006 21:56:03 -0000 1.77 +++ download.template 25 Apr 2006 21:25:27 -0000 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ <img src="{$root}/images/distro/suse.png" width="50" height="50" alt="SUSE Linux" border="0"></a> </td> <td> <b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241&package_id=7…">SUSE</a></b> - binary and source .rpms for SUSE 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, and 10.0</td> + binary and source .rpms for SUSE 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.0, and 10.1</td> <td><a href="mailto:meissner(a)suse.de">Marcus Meissner</a></td> </tr> There we go. We don't want to give the impression to SUSE 9.0 users that we are telling them to fuck off.

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SOC project
by Kai Blin April 26, 2006

April 26, 2006

Hi folks, after I implemented NTLM authentication using samba's ntlm_auth for last year's SOC, I'm considering entering again this year. Now what I wanted to as was the following. I've recently started to look into the GENSEC library samba4 has to implement SSPI authentication and signing/sealing, as the latter is impossible to do with ntlm_auth. Now, would you consider this to be too cheesy to do as a project for summer of code? If yes, I would of course try to think of something else I can do, but I'd really like to see SSPI doing all that's possible on win32 one day. And I think GENSEC is the way to go. So far this has the issue of GENSEC not being under the LGPL, but I've already talked to Andrew Bartlett about this, and I'm currently writing a proof of concept application that GENSEC is usable from outside the samba source. Once I have that talking to SSPI on the windows side, I guess I can convince him to relicense GENSEC as LGPL. The backup plan to that would be to add a small wrapper program and use a stdio interface to GENSEC similar to the solution with ntlm_auth now. Cheers, Kai -- Kai Blin, (blin at gmx dot net) If condition persists, consult your physician.

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Support section revamp
by Jeremy White April 26, 2006

April 26, 2006

Hi Folks, We've now reconnected the newgroup comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine to the wine-users mailing list, so they are, in theory, one 'virtual' community. We also revamped the web site a bit to try to make these things pop out a bit more. Please see this page in particular: http://www.winehq.org/site/getting_help Hopefully this will help people find a way to search for help and connect to the wine-users community a bit more easily, and ease some of the current pain around the lack of a forum. Cheers, Jeremy

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SambaXP update
by Kai Blin April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

Hi folks, As SerNet and the Samba team has invited me to SambaXP, I thought I'd give a short update on what happened here so far that is interesting for Wine. The talks today were only mildly interesting from the Wine point of view, but that chatting with the Samba folks in the breaks was really productive. I've talked to Steve French about exposing named pipes as file descriptors or fifos and he thinks that should be doable. I have to admit I'm not totally sure what those beasts are needed for, but Juan asked me to bug Steve about. I guess his talk about using CIFS on linux will be interesting, too. On the SSPI/GENSEC side, I've talked to Andrew Bartlett and Jelmer Vernooij about isolating GENSEC from the Samba code a bit more so it's useable without pulling in too much of the other Samba code (which is also GPL and not useable). They don't seem too happy about releasing GENSEC under the LGPL either, but seem to prefer that to other, less elegant solutions like a wrapper library or a stdio interface. On the bright side, I managed to get Wine code to compile with GENSEC using some quick hacks. That brings me a bit closer to a proof of concept implementation the Samba people want to see. The schedule for tomorrow will see more technical talks, and I'll continue to hack on wine-gensec a bit, and of course I'll try to give another report from the conference. Cheers, Kai -- Kai Blin, (blin at gmx dot net) For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.

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Re: [WINED3D] Use shorter lines in drawprim.c (whitespace)
by Stefan Dösinger April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

Hi, > +void primitiveDeclarationConvertToStridedData( > + IWineD3DDevice *iface, > + BOOL useVertexShaderFunction, > + Direct3DVertexStridedData *strided, > + LONG BaseVertexIndex, > + DWORD *fvf, > + BOOL storeOrder, > + INT arrayUsageMap[WINED3DSHADERDECLUSAGE_MAX_USAGE]) { I personally dislike that. In my opinion it's better this way: void primitiveDeclarationConvertToStridedData(IWineD3DDevice *iface, BOOL useVertexShaderFunction, ... ) { code; } Well, primitiveDeclarationConvertToStridedData is a bit of a bad example, because the function name isn't that short and INT arrayUsageMap[WINED3DSHADERDECLUSAGE_MAX_USAGE] is long too. However, it makes much more sense for the usual COM functions IMO: /*************************************************************** * IWineD3DDevice::SetTexture * * Some comments don't hurt. That's the usual style I have * found in other places, I think we should consistently * write what each function does for WineD3D, as is is a Wine- * specific dll and doesn't have MSDN documentation * * Params: * stage: What's this? * Texture: What's this? * * Returns: * What should the return value be? * ***************************************************************/ HRESULT WINAPI IWineD3DDeviceImpl_SetTexture(IWineD3DDevice *iface, DWORD stage, IWineD3DBaseTexture *Texture) { IWineD3DDeviceImpl *This = (IWineD3DDeviceImpl *) iface; IWineD3DBaseTextureImpl *TexImpl = (IWineD3DBaseTextureImpl *) Texture; HRESULT hr; foo(); bar(); /* Do a function call: */ hr = IWineD3DDevice_FunkyCall(iface, Param1, Param2); if(hr != D3D_OK) { /* What went wrong? */ return WINED3DERR_VERYBADERROR; } return WINED3D_OK; } Just my 2 cent. I know this is all a matter of taste. I plan making up the WineD3D code this way when AJ is back and patches go in again. Stefan

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Getting wrc to handle long long
by Bill Medland April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

(Further to my previous patch) I have little real experience with handling multiple platforms so I have no idea how this needs to be fixed. Can anyone make some suggestions. Currently the decision as to whether wrc will handle long long constants depends upon #if defined (SIZEOF_LONGLONG) && SIZEOF_LONGLONG >= 8 So where is this SIZEOF_LONGLONG supposed to come from? I presumed it was either a standard definition or a Microsoft one but I guess not; The APR uses one but that seems to be it. So I suggest maybe we should simply use #if defined (LLONG_MAX) which is at least part of C99 But then how to get LLONG_MAX set when compiling up wpp. I managed to hack it by adding std=gnu99 to the CFLAGS in the makefile but that is hardly portable. Can someone give a better suggestion? Is there something we are already checking in the configure that we can use? -- Bill Medland mailto:billmedland(a)mercuryspeed.com http://webhome.idirect.com/~kbmed

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Re: KERNEL: [2/2] changed test for FindFirstFileEx (Edited)
by Vitaliy Margolen April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

Monday, April 24, 2006, 2:23:31 AM, Konstantin Petrov wrote: > (Patch edited) > There were the problem while I advert to dosdevices through WINE. I made the > test (Windows vs Wine), which shows that in Windows there are available > dosfiles (such as NUL, COM1, COM2,.., LPT1, ..), and in Wine aren't. The > characteristic property of these files is that I can advert to them only > directly. In other cases they are invisible. > patch for test > changelog > tests/file.c: added test of FindFirstFileA to check correct handling > of > advertments to dosdevices. May I ask why such complication? Isn't it easier to create all those COM LPT, NUL, etc in ~/.wine/dosdevices? That seems to be a better way to handle this, because that some-what close to how native does it. Btw that also will clear all the questions where COM and LPT ports point to. Vitaliy Margolen

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DIB Engine Question
by Jesse Allen April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

Hi, I've done some reading on the DIB engine and I cannot determine where is the best place to integrate the code. Should it be in x11drv, gdi, or it's own DLL, or wined3d? Of course I want to do it right the first time when I start coding. =) Jesse

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Re-proposal: web forums
by Mike Hearn April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

Many projects, including large ones such as Gentoo, provide web forums for their users. The benefits are: * Users can help each other * Sometimes developers may read it and: * Be able to help users too * Learn what difficulties people are facing * Many people seem to prefer the web interface to mailing lists/newsgroups It has been brought up before and people weren't really keen, but I thought I'd bring it up again as we get a lot of value out of the forums in the autopackage project, and I can't seem to find the old 3rd party Wine forums there used to be anymore. So I'd like to propose: http://forums.winehq.org/ Running phpBB or some similar type web forum software, with official links and so on from WineHQ. Newman, what do you think, do we have server capacity to do this? Do you have time to set it up? Others, does anybody have any _serious_ objections (by which I mean other than "I don't like web interfaces" ;) thanks -mike

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HTML e-mails
by Vitaliy Margolen April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

I'm sure that everyone of us really enjoys seeing influx of these wonderful HTML messages. People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. Tey are a pain to read. And if some one about to say that's not their fault because they use gmail - then DON'T use gmail for this mailing list. Or configure it so it does not send HTML messages. Vitaliy

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Re: WineD3D: Implement GetDC and ReleaseDC
by Stefan Dösinger April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

Am Freitag, 21. April 2006 19:57 schrieb Stefan Dösinger: > This patch implements IWineD3DSurface::GetDC and > IWineD3DSurface::ReleaseDC. The code is basically taken from > dlls/ddraw/surface_dib.c > > Changelog: > Stefan Dösinger(for CodeWeavers): Implement IWineD3DSurface::GetDC and > IWineD3DSurface::ReleaseDC Alexandre, please don't apply this patch. I have found some problems with palettized surfaces and 24 bit textures, and I found that I should keep the dib section after it has been created once for performance reasons. Stefan

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Re: Web forums - simple suggestion
by Jonathan Ernst April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

It seems this mail didn't make it in... Le mardi 25 avril 2006 à 01:44 +0200, Molle Bestefich a écrit : > Eric Pouech wrote: > > my 0.02€ on the longuest thread of the year. > > I think we ought to have some sort of a phpBB forum. That way you > wouldn't get all this crap in your inbox - you could just selectively > choose the topics that interest you :-).. Please tell me how that is different than that: http://img251.imageshack.us/my.php?image=evolution5xa.jpg I can choose selectively what I want to read. I can put a flag near threads that I like to "bookmark" I don't get any e-mail in my regular mailboxes I can search through the archives Well, I don't have Stickies-like content go in the FAQs/AppDB/Wiki/Docs Please don't add yet another source of information. People ought to know how to use a mail client nowadays and most mail clients (even the dreaded outlook express) can do nntp since ages. As Jeremy White said before, I agree we could improve the instructions on http://www.winehq.org/forums. And note that if your computer is properly configured, a simple one-click on the nntp link on that page will give your nntp client all the informations needed to access the newsgroup. Regards.

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Re: Stub Implementation of FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME and FSCTL_UNLOCK_VOLUME in NtFsControlFile() in ntdll
by Mike McCormack April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

Bernd Buschinski wrote: > + case FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME: > + case FSCTL_UNLOCK_VOLUME: > + io->u.Status = STATUS_SUCCESS; > + break; Shouldn't this have a FIXME showing that we're not doing something? Mike

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Re: riched20: EM_GETLINE implementation and test (resend)
by Mike McCormack April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

tkho(a)ucla.edu wrote: > + memcpy(dest, L"\r", nEndChars*2); Wide character strings aren't portable. Please use something like: static const WCHAR szsr[] = { '\r', 0 }; Mike

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Re: HTML e-mails
by Tony Lambregts April 25, 2006

April 25, 2006

Vitaliy Margolen wrote: > I'm sure that everyone of us really enjoys seeing influx of these > wonderful HTML messages. > > People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. Tey are a pain > to read. And if some one about to say that's not their fault because they > use gmail - then DON'T use gmail for this mailing list. Or configure it > so it does not send HTML messages. > > Vitaliy > The main problem with using the Gmail web interface to send emails is that at present there is no way of specifying that a certain address always gets plain text. So if you have just sent a "Rich formatted"(HTML) message you have to remember change the setting back to "Plain text". Seeing as I almost never send "Rich formatted"(HTML) messages anyway this is not a problem for me. Sending from gmail.... -- Tony Lambregts

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Web forums - simple suggestion
by Jeremy White April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

Okay, so I've followed this thread, and I have a range of thoughts and what I think is a simple solution. First of all, if disk space is an issue, it's easily corrected with a $100 IDE drive. I think the real issue is that Jer doesn't like to work on half baked ideas unless they're more fully baked or someone else he trusts is cooking in the kitchen :-/. Second of all, it seems to me that the biggest problem is simply one of presentation. This is the relevant page: http://www.winehq.org/site/forums The current information is really quite poorly presented. There is way too much information; the useful bits (the Gmane and Google links) are buried way to deep imho. Third, I think the biggest problem is that there are 2 places to go for help. The wine-users mailing list, and the legacy usenet newsgroup. For a while, the two were connected, until the old gateway we were using broke down, and Jer ripped his hair out trying to make it work. But time has passed, and now Mailman has a builtin news <--> mail gateway system, and maybe we can reconnect them. (I'll go discuss this with Jer; if I'm not heard from ever again, it's because he beat me to a pulp with his printout of the Mailman manuals <grin>). But if we can reconnect them, then I think a nice solution would be to retool that page so the Google interface pops out: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine That looks forumishy enough to me to satisfy many people, and yet is nicely backwards compatible with all current systems. Cheers, Jeremy

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Bug when using FlashFXP still exists
by liefie diefie April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

FlashFXP (and other programs might as well) crash when trying to list. There was a patch submitted but that patch doesn't work unfortunately. Here you can see the details of it: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2005-April/035687.html I hope there will be somebody who is willing to give this a second look. You can always contact me for testing. Thank you.

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NetUserGetInfo and unsupported levels
by Aidan Thornton April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

Hi, Is there any particular reason why NetUserGetInfo returns success if it's called with a valid but unsupported value for level? This seems to cause problems for at least MSYS (part of MinGW), as it assumes this means that *bufptr has been set to something valid, when in fact the function call hasn't done this, or indeed anything much. (See bug #4488.) Aidan Thornton

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Re: KERNEL: [2/2] changed test for FindFirstFileEx (Edited)
by Eric Pouech April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

Konstantin Petrov wrote: > (Patch edited) > There were the problem while I advert to dosdevices through WINE. I made the > test (Windows vs Wine), which shows that in Windows there are available > dosfiles (such as NUL, COM1, COM2,.., LPT1, ..), and in Wine aren't. The > characteristic property of these files is that I can advert to them only > directly. In other cases they are invisible. > > patch for test > > changelog > tests/file.c: added test of FindFirstFileA to check correct handling > of > advertments to dosdevices. in you test cases, it would be worthwhile to test: - that the dos devices are only used when the full name is used, and not in other cases (like with trailing ' ', or a trailing dot '.', or even a wild card) - FindNextFileEx should also be checked to ensure the enumeration stops after the first one A+ -- Eric Pouech

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Re: KERNEL: [1/2] fixed FindFirstFileExW; support for dosdevices (NUL, LPT[1-9], COM[1-9]...) (Edited)
by Eric Pouech April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

Konstantin Petrov wrote: > (Patch Edited) > There were the problem while I advert to dosdevices through WINE. I made the > test (Windows vs Wine), which shows that in Windows there are available > dosdevices-files (such as NUL, COM1, COM2,.., LPT1, ..), and in Wine aren't. > The characteristic property of these files is that I can advert to them only > directly. In other cases they are invisible. > > patch for FinFrstFileExW > > changelog > file.c: fixed FindFirstFileExW for correct work with dosdevices. HI Konstantin, a couple of comments on your patch > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Fix dosdevice finding (by argentum(a)etersoft.ru) > > Index: dlls/kernel/file.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /home/wine/wine/dlls/kernel/file.c,v > retrieving revision 1.51 > diff -u -p -u -r1.51 file.c > --- dlls/kernel/file.c 3 Apr 2006 19:46:58 -0000 1.51 > +++ dlls/kernel/file.c 5 Apr 2006 05:43:28 -0000 > @@ -1552,7 +1553,9 @@ HANDLE WINAPI FindFirstFileExW( LPCWSTR > OBJECT_ATTRIBUTES attr; > IO_STATUS_BLOCK io; > NTSTATUS status; > + ULONG dos_device; > > + > TRACE("%s %d %p %d %p %lx\n", debugstr_w(filename), level, data, search_op, filter, flags); > > if ((search_op != FindExSearchNameMatch && search_op != FindExSearchLimitToDirectories) > @@ -1575,8 +1578,74 @@ HANDLE WINAPI FindFirstFileExW( LPCWSTR > > if (!mask || !*mask) > { > - SetLastError( ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND ); > - goto error; > + if(!mask && (dos_device = RtlIsDosDeviceName_U( filename ))) > + { > + WIN32_FIND_DATAW *d = data; //create file's attribute structure > + > + > + /*LOWORD(dos_device) - quantity of symbols in the DOS device name (NUL, LPT1,...) > + filename + HIWORD(dos_device) - points to the Dos device name's beginning */ > + if (!(info = HeapAlloc( GetProcessHeap(), 0, sizeof(*info)))) > + { > + SetLastError( ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY ); > + goto error; > + } > + > + info->mask.Length = LOWORD(dos_device); /* in bytes, not in WCHAR; as USHORT Length */ > + info->mask.MaximumLength = nt_name.Length + sizeof(WCHAR); > + info->mask.Buffer = RtlAllocateHeap(GetProcessHeap(), 0, info->mask.MaximumLength); > + memcpy( info->mask.Buffer, filename + HIWORD(dos_device)/sizeof(WCHAR), info->mask.Length); > + info->mask.Buffer[info->mask.Length/sizeof(WCHAR)] = 0; /* with '/' */ > + > + nt_name.Length = 4*sizeof(WCHAR) + HIWORD(dos_device); > + nt_name.MaximumLength = nt_name.Length + sizeof(WCHAR); /* + '0' at the end */ > + nt_name.Buffer = RtlAllocateHeap(GetProcessHeap(), 0, nt_name.MaximumLength); > + nt_name.Buffer[0] = '\\'; /* convert to NT' style path */ > + nt_name.Buffer[1] = nt_name.Buffer[2] = '?'; > + nt_name.Buffer[3] = '\\'; > + memcpy( (void *)(nt_name.Buffer + 4), filename, HIWORD(dos_device)); > + nt_name.Buffer[nt_name.Length/sizeof(WCHAR)] = 0; /* with '/' */ > + > + /* check if pftLastAccessTimeath is the root of the drive */ > + info->is_root = FALSE; > + > + attr.Length = sizeof(attr); > + attr.RootDirectory = 0; > + attr.Attributes = OBJ_CASE_INSENSITIVE; > + attr.ObjectName = &nt_name; > + attr.SecurityDescriptor = NULL; > + attr.SecurityQualityOfService = NULL; > + > + /* check if nt_name is existing directory */ > + status = NtOpenFile( &info->handle, GENERIC_READ, &attr, &io, > + FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, > + FILE_DIRECTORY_FILE | FILE_SYNCHRONOUS_IO_NONALERT ); > + > + if (status != STATUS_SUCCESS) > + { > + RtlFreeUnicodeString( &info->mask ); > + SetLastError( RtlNtStatusToDosError(status) ); > + goto error; > + } > + > + RtlInitializeCriticalSection( &info->cs ); > + info->path = nt_name; > + info->magic = FIND_FIRST_MAGIC; > + info->data_pos = 0; > + info->data_len = 0; > + info->search_op = search_op; > + > + memset(d, 0, sizeof(*d)); > + d->dwFileAttributes = FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE; > + memcpy( d->cFileName, filename + HIWORD(dos_device)/sizeof(WCHAR), LOWORD(dos_device)); > + > + return (HANDLE)info; > + } > + else > + { > + SetLastError( ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND ); > + goto error; > + } > } most of the code here is rather close to the rest of the function, so you should try to factorize the two paths into a single one > > if (!(info = HeapAlloc( GetProcessHeap(), 0, sizeof(*info)))) > @@ -1612,6 +1681,7 @@ HANDLE WINAPI FindFirstFileExW( LPCWSTR > attr.SecurityDescriptor = NULL; > attr.SecurityQualityOfService = NULL; > > + /* check if nt_name is existing directory */ > status = NtOpenFile( &info->handle, GENERIC_READ, &attr, &io, > FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE, > FILE_DIRECTORY_FILE | FILE_SYNCHRONOUS_IO_NONALERT ); > @@ -1819,6 +1889,14 @@ HANDLE WINAPI FindFirstFileExA( LPCSTR l > FILE_name_WtoA( dataW.cFileName, -1, dataA->cFileName, sizeof(dataA->cFileName) ); > FILE_name_WtoA( dataW.cAlternateFileName, -1, dataA->cAlternateFileName, > sizeof(dataA->cAlternateFileName) ); > +/****************************************************** > +* * > +* In Windows fields dataA->dwReserved0 = 0x003D4830 * > +* and dataA->dwReserved1 = 0x000000CC * > +* But here these fields are not initialized and used * > +* * > +******************************************************/ there's no need for this comment, unless you document what those fields are in real windows > + > return handle; > } -- Eric Pouech

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What version of freetype are we requiring these days
by Bill Medland April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

I have just noticed that configure is telling me "Warning: Freetype or Fontforge is missing" Why does it think that? (freetype-devel version 2.1.9 is installed) -- Bill Medland mailto:billmedland(a)mercuryspeed.com http://webhome.idirect.com/~kbmed

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Re: Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums
by Sterling Christensen April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

> > Mailing lists are searchable, but harder than a forum to search. > > Forums let you search by any of text, title, author, date, category, > > Ok, that sounds nice. > > The 'category' thing sounds tricky to implement on top of a mailing > list (as I would like it)... Yes, categories are nice. > > You can't cancel or edit posts. Forum moderators can delete spam > > posts. > > That's just a horrible feature. > As with any kind of censorship it will do nothing but make people > suspect you for deleting legitimate posts. There've been forums like that, but they die quickly. Only forums with trustworthy admins get popular. So that's generally not a problem. > Spam should be removed (or maybe categorized under 'spam') by a spam filter. > And if one does slip through, it will disappear in the noise in no time. > Aren't most forums like about 30.000 pages long? > Would you ever notice anything like a single spam mail? Yes, most people do notice them, because even popular fast moving forums aren't noisy - they lists thread titles instead of posts. It's a lot more concise that way - you don't get bured in posts. For some reason spammers never post in existing threads, they always create new ones. And at every active forum I've seen, their posts always get noticed, reported, and moved or removed.

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Re: [WINED3D] Use shorter lines in drawprim.c (whitespace)
by Francois Gouget April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote: > Goal: prevent wraparound of lines on 1024x768 resolution using standard fonts Hmm, if wrapping lines you must, then wrap them at the standard 80 characters, rather than some ill defined length (whose 'standard fonts'? xemacs'? gedit's? eterm's (vi)? using which display dpi?). -- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ Stolen from an Internet user: "f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng !"

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Re: riched20: Implement conformance tests for EM_SETUNDOLIMIT()
by Mike Hearn April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:48:23 -0500, Matt Finnicum wrote: > My first patch, comments are welcome. Looks good Matt! Try leaving space between local variable declarations and the start of statements, it just makes things easier to read. Also send the mails as plain text only in future - AJ feeds them straight to patch and lets it strip out the junk but the less html/mime stuff there is, the more likely that is to work. thanks -mike

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Re: Re: Re-proposal: web forums
by Jonathan Ernst April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

Le dimanche 23 avril 2006 à 12:41 -0500, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) a écrit : > But I still want to get certain threads delivered to my mailbox, so I > suffer thru all the ones I don't read. Where if I subscribe to a forum > thread, then I get all posts to that thread in my mailbox (how i like > it) and can click a link in the email that takes me directly to that > thread (like bugzilla does for its bugs) so I can post. What about using your mail client and its ability to access nntp mailing-lists ? I'm subscribed to many mailing lists but none are configured to send me a copy of the messages to my mailbox; I just access them like normal (separate) mailbox, I can see them threaded or not, search and filter messages, etc. It's faster and more convenient than using a web forum. Regards.

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Sum-up: Re-proposal: web forums
by Molle Bestefich April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

Hi I've tried to sum up the problems with the wine-users mailing list that are urging many people to call for a forum.winehq.org. I hope it's useful. Problems ======== 1) Cannot post without configured mail client 2) Browsing old topics and replying/posting new ones happen in two different places (web archive vs. mail client) 3) Current archive web interface unwieldy (many clicks needed to browse, always sorted by month) 4) Missing Googlish search function 5) "Subscribe" wording and web pages suggest your inbox will fill up when doing so 6) Subscribing will cause your inbox to fill up; it's not obvious how to change it; neither how to receive mail on specific topics you DO want once you've changed it 7) Missing "forward all postings re this topic to my inbox" feature 8) Very difficult to post under pseudonym 9) Missing 'sticky' feature (?) Solution 1: A forum, fx. phpBB =============================== Pros: ) Easy to set up. We might even be able to sneak it in before AJ returns :-). (Sorry big guy, couldn't resist pulling one on your expense =)..) ) Might attract away from wine-users a high quantity of dumb questions that people ask when they can't be bothered to search the archives. ) Adds a structural approach by categorizing users' various problems, which encourages searching instead of asking. Cons: ) Dillutes knowledge; some ends up in forum and some on wine-users, unless we nuke wine-users. ) Need to hack the code to get visual integration with WineHQ (menus etc). ) To get single-sign-on, we need either a.) reverse proxy or b.) something LDAPish and some amount of phpBB hacking Solution 2: Point people at Gmane or Google Groups in a prominent place ======================================================================== Pros: ) We don't have to do anything :-). Cons: ) If it's not directly on winehq.org, it's probably not official enough that people are going to use it. ) Not everyone has a Gmail account (required to post through Groups) ) Not everyone is adept to using Gmane Solution 3: WebForum-on-top-of-List ==================================== Pros: ) We concentrate people, allowing web and email users to communicate. ) We concentrate (archived) knowledge in one place. Cons: ) The reason that forums are often filled with spam might be that it's too easy to post to them. We'd be duplicating that. ) We need to code it all ourselves! I think solution 1 is good, but I prefer the extra icing on the cake that comes with solution 3. Now, I'm not high on crystal meth or anything, but I'll just assume for a moment that we all want better accessibility for the newcomers (even with the rise in volume that they bring), and that all agree to go with solution 3 :-). Thus I'll try to outline a battle plan: Battle-plan for solution 3 ========================== We'd like non-Wine developers to be able to join in; so let's make sure that this system is generically usable. That means: * Standard user authentication, fx. using LDAP. * Componentize a bit, fx. keep the web interface itself separate from WineHQ menu structure and logo. We'd need to: * Prioritize features * Setup a mailing list * Setup a simple project web page * Setup a winehq-like staging area for development (follows HEAD/TIP/origin of web repository so everyone can see what the others are doing) * Find developers/volunteers! * Get started on the coding When prioritizing features, we should take a look around and see if there are software components available that could be reused, fx.: * PHP LDAP auth bindings * Existing, good web interfaces for the wine archives (mailman?) * ?... Any holes or oversights in that plan? If solution 3 ever takes off, I will gladly contribute with coding. Realistically, though, i cannot implement something like this all by myself, especially not in any kind of a timely fashion.

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Re: [shell32,shlwapi] Implement the IShellLinkDataList interface
by Mike McCormack April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

Thomas Weidenmueller wrote: > P.S.: Please let me know if there's something wrong with this patch or > tell me why it was rejected. Otherwise I'm going to assume the fixes > aren't appreciated or necessary because the implementation is considered > mature and stable. ../../../tools/runtest -q -P wine -M shell32.dll -T ../../.. -p shell32_test.exe.so shelllink.c && touch shelllink.ok fixme:shell:ShellLink_GetFlags 0x7fd3f7b0 0x7fb5f8b0 fixme:shell:ShellLink_GetFlags 0x7fd3f7b0 0x7fb5f8b0 shelllink.c:576: Test failed: CopyDataBlock failed shelllink.c:578: Test failed: signature wrong shelllink.c:579: Test failed: signature wrong You might want to split the patch into three separate changes (header + clist fixes + shelllink) too. Mike

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Re: Stub Implementation of FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME and FSCTL_UNLOCK_VOLUME in NtFsControlFile() in ntdll
by Dimi Paun April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 10:48 +0200, Bernd Buschinski wrote: > + case FSCTL_LOCK_VOLUME: > + case FSCTL_UNLOCK_VOLUME: > + io->u.Status = STATUS_SUCCESS; > + break; > + > default: > FIXME("Unsupported fsctl %lx (device=%lx access=%lx func=%lx method=%lx)\n", > code, code >> 16, (code >> 14) & 3, (code >> 2) & 0xfff, code & 3); Can you please also issue a FIXME that this is just a stub? -- Dimi Paun <dimi(a)lattica.com> Lattica, Inc.

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Re: [Wine] Re: Re-proposal: web forums
by David Shaw April 24, 2006

April 24, 2006

Jeff Vian wrote: >>How about the ability to post/read/respond to messages even when you're >>not at your own computer? Many people on Yahoo Groups, for instance, >>don't even have a computer at home and access their groups from works or >>library computers. To my mind, this is probably the most important >>advantage a forum has over an email list. >> >>David Shaw >> >> >> > >Web mail accounts such as yahoo or msn and the like do not tie you to >your home computer either. > > > > Indeed - but many offices and libraries firewall such sites. And they all have a fairly limited capacity. Personally, I like the way Yahoo Groups does it - it's effectively an email list, but with a relatively effective web interface within which I can usually find relevant archived posts within a couple of minutes. The Wine-users etc. archives, on the other hand, I find totally impenetrable and impossible to find relevant posts from the past in any reasonable amount of time. I'm not knocking those who designed it, I'm sure that, to them, it's totally transparent and the easiest system in the world to use - I know, I've designed Grud alone knows how many forms, all of which have made perfect sense to me, but many of which have extracted the response 'Eh?!' from the intended users and I feel this is probably the same kind of situation :-) Fora (posh, eh ;-> ) and email lists each have their pros and cons and those who like one tend to dislike the other. I feel this is a debate which is never going to reach a conclusion which will satisfy everyone (emacs or vi? Mac or PC? Anyone? ;-> ) so all I will say further on the matter is this - *please* add a search function to the archives and then at least *I'll* be happy :-) David Shaw

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Use of ARB_fragment_program_100
by Phil Costin April 23, 2006

April 23, 2006

Hi, This is marked as a TODO at line 1698 of dlls/wined3d/directx.c: 1691 if ((wined3d_settings.ps_mode == PS_HW) && GL_SUPPORT(ARB_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM) && (DeviceType != WINED3DDEVTYPE_REF)) { 1692 *pCaps->PixelShaderVersion = D3DPS_VERSION(1,4); 1693 *pCaps->PixelShader1xMaxValue = 1.0; 1694 } else { 1695 *pCaps->PixelShaderVersion = 0; 1696 *pCaps->PixelShader1xMaxValue = 0.0; 1697 } 1698 /* TODO: ARB_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM_100 */ 1699 1700 /* ------------------------------------------------ 1701 The following fields apply to d3d9 only 1702 ------------------------------------------------ */ 1703 if (This->dxVersion > 8) { Despite remembering seeing this extension somewhere in the past, I can not actually find any information relating to it by searching the web. I assume that this is likely to need replacing with a GL_SUPPORT(ARB_FRAGMENT_SHADER) as per line 1691 for pixel shaders > 1.4 There is probably a good reason for this line and I don't want to jump the gun and mess with anyone's plans by submitting patches yet. Are there definite plans to use this extension here? If so, is there any documentation for it because I certainly can't find any... Regards, Phil Costin

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Last call for SoC mentors?
by Dan Kegel April 23, 2006

April 23, 2006

If you're interested in being an SoC mentor, and you haven't emailed jwhite(a)codeweavers.com yet, please do so now ( and cc me ). Help guide the next generation of open source developers! Thanks! -- Wine for Windows ISVs: http://kegel.com/wine/isv

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Re: Fixing cross-compilation 1/2
by Detlef Riekenberg April 23, 2006

April 23, 2006

Am Sonntag, den 23.04.2006, 17:23 +0100 schrieb Paul Millar: > The patch fixes an existing test within the autoconf configure.ac. Great to see, that WRT-Native is on the way to run again. > This is a resubmission (no comment from previous submission) so please comment > if its wrong! This Patch is unusable because of the line-wrap. You can attach the diff as File to avoid this. When I send a Patch, that result in a change for "configure", I just add a note in the Mail: The Changes for "configure" are not included. Alexandre rebuilds "configure", when needed -- By By ... ... Detlef

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